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or that first world democracies would have actually stood up for the combined good of people everywhere rather than just asserting their own narrow organisation
by twelvechairs 13y ago
or that first world democracies would have actually stood up for the combined good of people everywhere rather than just asserting their own narrow organisational goals.
- loup-vaillant 13y ago> first world democracies The people don't rule in the first world. The businesses do. So, "Democracy" is the wrong word. "Plutocracy" and "Oligarchy" are more accurate.
- jonny_eh 13y agoWho rules in the other worlds?
- loup-vaillant 13y agoI'd say the First World businesses, although more indirectly. See the "structural adjustment packages" we impose to enslave those countries (devaluing money, favouring exportation…).